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Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox

Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox

Posted Feb 10, 2004 11:51 UTC (Tue) by sitaram (subscriber, #5959)
Parent article: Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox

What a lot of passion for a name!

I wonder if anyone thought of using the name (as in "given name") of a specific phoenix in mythology. Not knowing any mythology that involves a phoenix, the only one I could think of is Fawkes -- Professor Dumbledore's pet bird in the Harry Potter series.

And guess what - fox rhymes with Fawkes ;-) So I'm happy!

Sitaram


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